Table of Contents ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS AND WELCOME …………………………………. 2 ABOUT THE ALS ……………………………………………………………… 3 PROGRAM …..........................................................................................4 ABSTRACTS THURSDAY SESSIONS …..............................................................8 FRIDAY SESSIONS ……………………………………………………..27 SATURDAY SESSIONS ………………………………………………... 49 1 THE TWENTY-SEVENTH ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM ON ARABIC LINGUISTICS Indiana University Bloomington, Indiana February 28 – March 2, 2013 Acknowledgements Host Institutions: INDIANA UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF LINGUISTICS CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF THE MIDDLE EAST & The ARABIC LINGUISTICS SOCIETY Dear Attendees Welcome to Bloomington and Indiana University. We are pleased to host the 27th meeting of the Arabic Linguistics Symposium, the most prestigious conference on Arabic Linguistics. This is the first time that the Symposium is being held in Bloomington and we hope that you make most of your stay. The University is known for the wide number of languages that are taught on campus and its many outstanding language departments. In making this event possible, we want to acknowledge the support of the Center for the Study of the Middle East and the Department of Linguistics at Indiana University, the two co-sponsors. Both have allocated financial resources to make the Symposium possible. In particular we want to thank Liese Hilgeman, Myriem Benzouina, Michael Hancock- Parmer and Çiğdem Balım of the Center and Professor Robert Botne of the Department of Linguistics. In addition we thank the IU Conference Services for help with the registration and John Benjamins Publishing Co. for their support of publishing the conference volumes. Most importantly, we thank the executive board of the Arabic Linguistics Society and especially its executive director Mushira Eid for reviewing abstracts and their help with organizing all aspects of the conference. Finally, we would like to thank you all for choosing to share your research and to learn from others at ALS 27. We look forward to what promises to be an engaging and rewarding Symposium. Sincerely, Feisal Istrabadi and Stuart Davis 2 About the Arabic Linguistics Society The Arabic Linguistics Society (ALS) was founded in June 1988 as a non-profit organization for the purpose of encouraging research and the sharing of research in the field of modern Arabic linguistics. The Society provides a forum for scholars interested in the study of Arabic within current linguistic theories and analyses. As such, it is the major, if not only, professional society in North America that is exclusively dedicated to the advancement of research on Arabic linguistics and plays a critical role in supporting and disseminating linguistic scholarship on Arabic. The Society sponsors an annual symposium on Arabic linguistics, the first held in 1987 hosted by the University of Utah, Salt Lake City. Since then over 20 other major universities have hosted the annual symposium. In 1998, the Society sponsored its first International Symposium on Arabic Linguistics to maintain contact with Arabic linguists at universities abroad and encourage international research on Arabic linguistics. It continues to sponsor international symposia on a less regular basis. For disseminating research on Arabic linguistics, the Society sponsors the publication of papers selected from those presented at its symposia in a series entitled Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics and published by John Benjamins (Amsterdam and Philadelphia). Papers are peer-reviewed and edited prior to final acceptance for publication. Executive Board (2010-2013) Reem Khamis-Dakwar, Adelphi University Mustafa Mughazy, University of Western Michigan Hamid Ouali, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Dilworth Parkinson, Brigham Young University Usama Soltan, Middlebury College Executive Director: Mushira Eid, University of Utah 3 THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2013 7:30-8:15 Registration 8:15 Welcome/Opening Remarks Phonology I (Chair: Kenneth de Jong, IU) 8:30-9:00 Vocalic Length in One Semitic Language: The case of Egyptian Arabic vowel system Radwa Fathi, Université Paris 7 /LLF- CNRS 9:00-9:30 An Acoustic Study of Epenthetic Vowels in Lebanese Arabic Nancy Hall, California State University, Long Beach 9:30-10:00 The Acoustic Correlates of Emphatic Geminates in Jordanian Arabic Mohammad Al-Masri, University of Oklahoma 10:00-10:30 Acoustic Correlates and Perception Cues of Primary Emphatics in Beiruti Arabic Emilie Durand-Zuniga, University of Texas at Austin 10:30-10:45 Coffee Break Phonology II (Chair: Kenneth de Jong, IU) 10:45-11:15 The Status of Daad in a Southwest Arabian dialect (Tihami Qahtani) Khairia Al-Qahtani, University of Essex, UK 11:15-11:45 To Metathesize or Not to Metathesize: Sonority Constraints in Tunisian Arabic Nouns Suyeon Yun, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 11:45-12:45 Keynote Address: Explorations at the syntax-phonology interface in Arabic Sam Hellmuth, University of York, UK 12:45-1:45 Lunch Syntax I (Chair: Youssef Haddad, University of Florida) 1:45-2:15 On the Featural Properties of Complementizers in Arabic Hamid Ouali, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee 2:15-2:45 On the Syntax of Spatial 'Prepositions' in Lebanese Arabic Lina Choueiri, American University in Beirut 2:45-3:15 On the Syntax of ʔillaa in Egyptian Arabic Usama Soltan, Middlebury College 3:15-3:30 Coffee Break 4 Semantics (Chair: Mushira Eid, University of Utah) 3:30-4:00 The Semantic Complexity of Kuwaiti Arabic: The case of dašš Yousuf AlBader, University of Sheffield 4:00-4:30 Identifying Semantic Relations in Arabic Sameh Alansary, Bibliothecha Alexandria 4:30-4:45 Coffee Break 4:45-5:45 Keynote Address: Arabic Verbal And Nominal Plurals And The Syntax Morphology Interface Elabbas Benmamoun, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign 6:00-7:30 Reception, Indiana University Art Museum FRIDAY, MARCH 1, 2013 Syntax II (Chair: Usama Soltan, Middlebury College) 8:30-9:00 On the Clausal Anchoring of Parenthetical Verb Phrases in Moroccan Arabic Noureddine Elouazizi, Simon Fraser University 9:00-9:30 Attitude Datives in Lebanese Arabic: Pronouns that merge too high to be bound Youssef Haddad, University of Florida 9:30-10:00 A Minimalist Approach to Restrictive and Free Relatives in MSA Abdulrahman Alqurashi, University of Essex 10:00-10:15 Coffee Break Discourse/Corpus Analysis (Chair: Reem Khamis-Dakwar, Delphi University) 10:15-10:45 A Salience-based Analysis of the Tunisian Arabic Demonstrative hāk as Used in Oral Narratives Amel Khalfaoui, Florida Atlantic University 10:45-11:15 Converging Linguistic Evidence: The synonymy of Arabic COME verbs Dana Abdulrahim and Antti Arppe, University of Alberta 11:15-12:15 Keynote Address: Modeling Sociopragmatic Language Use in Social Media in Arabic and English: A Comparative Computational Perspective Mona Diab, George Washington University 12:15-1:30 Lunch Arabic Linguistics Society Business Meeting 5 Sociolinguistics & Variation (Chair: Clancy Clements, IU) 1:30-2:00 Computational Measures of Linguistic Variation Mahmoud Abunasser and Elabbas Benmamoun, University of Illinois at Urabana- Champaign 2:00-2:30 Glottal-initial Verbs ’axaḏ/’akal in Contact Situations: Data from Amman Arabic Enam Al-Wer, University of Essex, and Hanadi Ismail 2:30-3:00 Urbanization and Linguistic Change in Jeddah Aziza Al-Essa, King Abdulaziz University 3:00-3:30 French Nouns in CS with Two Arabic dialects: A comparison of community norms Rebekah Post, University of Texas at Austin 3:30-3:45 Coffee Break 3:45-4:45 Keynote Address: The Maghreb-Mashreq language ideology and the politics of identity in a globalized Arab world Atiqa Hachimi, University of Toronto, Scarborough 4:45-5:00 Coffee Break Historical Linguistics (Chair: Hamid Ouali, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee) 5:00-5:30 The Antecedents of Arabic Dialects: A speech communities approach Alexander Magidow, University of Texas at Austin 5:30-6:00 Grammaticalization of the Motion Verb 'rah' as a Prospective Aspect Marker in Syrian Arabic Najib Jarad, University of Sharjah 6:00-6:30 Jiim and the Class of Sun Letters: A Historical and Dialectological Perspective Aaron Freeman, University of Pennsylvania 6:30-7:00 The Evolution of Dād Salman Al-Ani and Anthony Woodhams, Indiana University 6 SATURDAY, MARCH 2, 2013 Acquisition (Chair: Dil Parkinson, Brigham Young University) 8:30-9:00 Compensatory Lengthening: Evidence from Child Arabic Eman Abdoh, King Abdulaziz University 9:00-9:30 Linguistic Transfer in Learning English as a Second Language in Typically Developing Arabic Heritage School-Age Speakers Reem Khamis-Dakwar, Adelphi University, and Elabbas Benmamoun, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 9:30-10:00 Can L2 Primes Trigger L1 Translation Targets in Mased Priming?: New Evidence from a highly proficient English–Arabic Bilingual Mahmoud Azaz and Kenneth Forster, University of Arizona 10:00-10:30 Gender and Plausibility in the Disambiguation of Relative Clauses in L2 Arabic Abdelaadim Bidaoui, Rebecca Foote, and Mahmoud Abu Nasser, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 10:30-10:45 Coffee Break Experimental and Interlanguage Studies (Chair: Çiğdem Balım, IU) 10:45-11:15 Verb Inflections in Adolescents with Down Syndrome: Experimental approach Khawla Aljenaie, Kuwait University 11:15-11:45 Agrammatism in Moroccan Arabic-Speaking Subjects Samir Diouny, Chouaib Doukkali University, Morocco 11:45-12:15 An Exploration of the Formation of Canonical Agreement Morphosyntactic Features in English-Arabic Interlanguage Boshra El-Ghazoly,